[arch-dev-public] Resurrecting old todolists

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>> If you all remember, after the last archweb release, we had to offload
>>>> the todolists (package IDs no longer matched, and it was all complex
>>>> to convert, so we deferred it).
>>>>
>>>> Well, I'm going to re-add the ones that we still need (i.e. DB rebuilds)
>>>>
>>>> I dumped all the old lists here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/todolists.txt
>>>> Please take a look at the top section, and let me know which lists can
>>>> be deleted and which are still useful if you can.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Aaron
>>>
>>> The Broken Licenses TODO should probably be regenerated if we're going
>>> to re-add it - in fact, since it was generated by a script anyways, we
>>> could probably incorporate it into the weekly sanity-check that goes
>>> out.  I'll have a look at the script I wrote and adapt it to the new
>>> directory structure.
>>
>> The reporead.py script that dumps the pacman DBs to the web interface
>> sends me emails every night that contain this info. Let me forward one
>> to the list. I could probably set it up to email once a week too.
>
> Took a look at the output - it looks good, but I only see "No license"
> messages - nothing that checks for the validity of entries within the
> licenses array, which was what my script checked.  For example, it
> ensured that the items in the array were either licenses contained in
> /usr/share/licenses/common or "custom" - and that the ones using a
> "custom" license referenced /usr/share/licenses somewhere in their
> build() function.

Ah nice, then that would be useful